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Description: | Hematite is an oxide of iron, it has the same composition as rust. It also an important ore of iron, which occurs in west Cumbria. Shiny crystals like these ones are commonly described as specular iron. The largest hematite deposits are found near lake Superior. Elsewhere, large deposits of hematite are found at Bilbao in Spain, Utah, Cuba and Brazil. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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